Aid Plane Crashes In Congo, all aboard feared dead

An aid plane has crashed into a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all 17 people on board are feared dead. The plane went missing yesterday in bad weather and has recently been found. It was carrying aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres,...

Aid Plane Crashes In Congo, all aboard feared dead

An aid plane has crashed into a mountain in the Democratic Republic of Congo, all 17 people on board are feared dead. The plane went missing yesterday in bad weather and has recently been found. It was carrying aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres,...

UN warns of North Korea food shortages

In the 1990's North Korea faced significant economic problems such as disasters and and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. As a result of this, between 300,000 and 800,000 North Koreans died per yer for three years....

A flower that bears seeds of doom?

Bamboo, that is used so extensively in northeast India for various purposes like building houses, bridges, in medicines, and more, spells doom in the form of famine the moment it starts flowering. But is it true,...

The War in Somalia, Black Hawk Down, and Katrina All from Global Warming?

 Global Warming Led to 'Black Hawk Down' By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com The writer, while in the US Army,  can't remember in my mobilization orders that we had a war on Global warming, ...

Cuban help to Africa cannot be ignored

It is not easy to read stories or articles on assistance and solutions to poverty and diseases within Third World countries. This article printed by Gramma International would probably not...

The Ukrainian 'genocide by starvation'

" Grigori Garaschenko remembers seeing his classmates starve slowly to death in a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine. A neighbour driven mad by hunger killed her six-year-old daughter and began to eat...

Food prices to stay high for a decade

An FAO summit held in response to the glopbal food crisis has concluded that the era of cheap food for the Earth is over, and that global food prices are likely to remain high for at least the next decade. This will...

Ireland to mark famine disaster

"The victims of the Irish Famine are to be remembered in an annual official memorial day, which is to be established in the Republic of Ireland.It is believed that about one million people in Ireland starved in the...

Food - The Ultimate Weapon

"Using food as a weapon is as old as the siege but today’s barbarians have upped the anté by several orders of magnitude.“…There are only two possible ways in which a world of 10 billion...

Sudan's Darfur crisis enters its 5th year

From the 1994 famine to five years of Darfur. What is the solution?

Why Food Costs Are Soaring

"Fatal food riots in Haiti. Violent food-price protests in Egypt and Ivory Coast. Rice so valuable it is transported in armoured convoys. Soldiers guarding fields and warehouses. Export bans to keep local populations...

Boston Tea Party Hit Corporate Monopoly

"The Boston Tea Party was a direct action against a corporate monopoly that led to the birth of the United States. The raiders of the Tea Party pledged silence for 50 years. One of them, George R. T. Hewes, lived...

Scientists: Global Warming Cure

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Though fine in theory, perhaps it is best left as a theory. Somehow I don't think the world is ready for worldwide famine, drought and summer blizzards which may last...

Hapless Farmers in Manipur 'Read' Hard Times(UPDATES)

:By Lalmalsawm Sungte: Nov 21 ::::UPDATES::::   Nov 15: Bamboo flowering season may be happy times for swamping rats but hapless farmers in southwest Manipur (a state in northeast India) are...

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